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website-com · 11 months ago

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its true he just comes to you in your moment of need

#i was playing the game and then i had to make dinner #i remember seeing posts about this phenomenon before even playing the game... it inspired me i had to know him #it was so funny i was not trying to think of him at all and his voice actor just appeared in my head doing my secondary narration thing #you know what i mean. when youre doing something so you have a little conversation in your head.#its been like years since ive had a character narrate it for me. the speech pattern is even my best impression of him #dont play video game for hours #disco elysium #kim kitsuragi

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catdrawinfs · 1 year ago

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woah...goign to think abotuthis for years

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icewindandboringhorror · 3 days ago

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I've referenced before how I have a big google document to keep track of every media I've ever seen in my entire life (just for reference because I like to track everything possible lol… I am the Data Collector), but recently as I was updating it, I thought of actually evaluating them to find out random percentages (like for example, out of Total Shows Watched, what percentage did I finish vs. stop watching, what percentage did I like or dislike, etc.)...

Evaluating these things is made easier by the fact that I already place everything on each subsection of the list into 6 broad ranking categories, so I don't have to go back and guess to figure out how I feel about them or anything. The categories are: Ranking 5 - overall best* (despite some criticisms of course because I'm too much of an Analyzer to ever find anything Perfect lol) Ranking 4 - more positive than neutral, but not good enough to be 5 Ranking 3 - either the good + bad negate each other, OR it's just not memorable/interesting in any way enough to be ranked higher or lower (this is the Default category ALL things are placed in if no other rank applies) Ranking 2 - maybe a few redeemable elements but largely more negatives than positives Ranking 1 - So bad that it circles around to being fascinating to observe in some way (not necessarily Funny, or Good, but just interesting somehow) Ranking 0 - Bad in a genuinely frustrating or obnoxious manner

*("best" primarily defined here as most interesting, rather than most good in a technical sense, or some other measure. I tend to value more highly whether there's something novel or thoughtful about the worldbuilding, tone, writing, base premise, etc - than about whether it's actually executed perfectly.)

And here's the amount of shows that have so far been placed into each category -

TV shows ~ Rank 5 (highest) - 20 shows ~ Rank 4 (mid-high) - 28 shows ~ Rank 3 (neutral/default/meh) - 114 shows ~ Rank 2 (mid low) -33 shows ~ Rank 1 (low low but intriguingly so) - 14 shows ~ Rank 0 (iredeemably low) - 2 shows

This would make for a total of 211 TV shows overall. However, there are 57 shows within these list marked as "didn't finish" (typically meaning I quit on the very first or second episode - but log them still to keep a record that I at least had a brief view of them).

So my total of genuinely fully watched shows would be more 154. 211 Total, but a More Accurate Total of 154.

Counting them all and using the Total Number Of The List (211) -- that means roughly 9.5% of all total shows I have ever watched (or at least attempted to watch) have been Mostly Good, 13% have been Moderately Okay, 54% have been either entirely Forgettable or some mix of good + bad that lands them right in the Neutral Middle, 15.6% have been Mostly Bad, 6.6% have been Bad (but in an interesting way), and 0.9% have been Terribly Bad.

Additionally, I didn't even get past the first two episodes of about 27% of the total.

Sooo, discounting ones I didn't finish, my total TV shows ever watched in my life would be about 154 (maybe give or take a few, assuming I might have forgotten some from very long ago).

But instead of entire life, let's just say this is the total for 'About 20 Years' (so, not counting very early childhood when I likely wouldn't remember things I saw/have no detailed recollection of them (like for example, I'm sure at some point when I was like 4yrs old I must have seen an episode of Spongebob or something, but I have zero distinct memories of it, can't quote anything of it, and barely recall the premise - so I don't count it on the list, etc.)).

In that case, 154 divided by 20 would be roughly 7.7 shows a year.

Which is actually surprisingly low considering that I often have stuff on in the background for hours whilst I make sculptures and do costumes and stuff (maybe I should have also marked some distinction between 'things I fully paid attention to' and 'things I kind of half listened to whilst sculpting', but that would further split the categories too much probably lol), but I guess a lot of that is youtube videos or random documentaries, so .. eh.. maybe I get it being lower.

Now, doing the same thing for movies-

Movies ~ Rank 5 (highest) - 4 movies (3.4% of total) ~ Rank 4 (mid-high) - 12 movies (10.3% of total) ~ Rank 3 (neutral/default/meh) - 91 movies (78.4% of total) ~ Rank 2 (mid low) - 8 movies (6.8% of total) ~ Rank 1 (low but interesting) - 1 movie (0.8% of total) ~ Rank 0 (irredeemably low) - none in this category (0%)

That makes 116 for a Total (Actually Remembered) Movies Watched In Lifetime (Or At Least In 20 Years).

116 divided by 20 is roughly 5 or 6 movies a year (I feel this has probably been skewed though by adding everything since like elementary school onwards, as I remember a lot more movies from child/teen years.. Whereas, the past 3 years I feel like I've barely seen maybe even 5 movies?? lol). I also have "Didn't Finish" marked on 18 of them. Which means I quit halfway through about 15% of the total movies.

So, a for broader summary stuff..

I seem to be less forgiving to movies than tv shows, by far. Which makes sense to me, I guess, because I love elaboration and details, so "short form" things that only last an hour or two are often lost on me a bit. My biggest complaint with movies is indeed usually walking away just wishing there had been more exposition, more scenes where characters are doing nothing, more "mindless bantering" conversations, more Quiet Downtime and Lore Elaboration and so on lol, so... of course most 1-2hr films end up feeling a bit Not Enough To Draw My Interest/Nothingy to me.

If you count 5 and 4 as "like" and rankings 2 to 0 as "dislike", then for TV shows I at least somewhat liked 48 of them, and at least somewhat disliked 47 of them.. So it's almost exactly the same lol. I'm just about equally as likely to find something bad as I am to find something redeeming about it. But overall, the largest chance is that I just won't really care much for it at all and it will be tossed into the 'neutral' pile, forgotten forever. Movies have a bit better of a balance, "liking" 16 of them, and "disliking" only 9 of them. So I'm slightly more likely to enjoy a movie than to find it annoying - though still VASTLY more likely to just not find it anything in particular, possibly not even finishing it.

ANYWAY.. this is vague and literally pointless, but like I said, I just really find information fun. Like my document where I've rated every apple flavor I've ever tried (like 40 of them now?), or reviewed every oreo flavor (32?), or ranking data from my entire 10 years of Trying To Make Friends process (out of 100 people, roughly 8% chance of a moderate compatibility, 3% chance of high), or etc. etc.. I love to have random pointless things to analyze I suppose lol.

I doubt anyone tracks things in their life in this same exact way, but I'd be interested in hearing any at least somewhat similar data !!! (like, how many TV shows you watch a year on average, and what percentage of those you like vs. dislike (if you keep track of that sort of thing), etc.)). I guess it might be easier with movies, since I think some people use those websites where you curate a list of movies you've seen and you can rate them or something, so maybe the numbers are already available on those places. :0

#maybe this is my version of spotify wrapped lol.. Lifetime Media Google Doc Wrapped.. kind of.. except I'm not going over specific titles.#I can't do this with music since I rarely EVER look for new music or add to my Youtube To MP3 folder library as I just don't really #listen to music that often. When I'm working (the majority of when I seek background noise) I need like.. people's talking voices #for some reason. Just instruments and singing are not distracting enough to me to work as background noise because theyre #almost TOO in the background if that makes sense? like if I put music on then I just tune it out and it's virtually no different #than if I were daydreaming stream of consciousness thoughts in an entirely quiet room lol. And I can't really do it with books since #essentially 100% of what I read is non-fiction. usually about some specific subject or academic topic OR stuff like #1800s magazines or cookbooks or historical people's diaries. Which is not really.. the type of thing I would #rank as easily I guess? like 'ooh yeah putting the sociology textbook in my top 5 hee hee right next to the 1920s radio recipes book' lol.#Then for games... I just sadly dont play enough of them. I've been banned from new games as I've told myself I cant play anyting #long form (no rpgs or etc) until I actually finish MY OWN game first - to keep me from wasting time. so on average #I play... 0 new games a year. ToT... I do play the sims sometimes but that's really all (which is not a new game at all since #I've been playing it on and off for years). Thus I guess movies/TV are really the only things that make sense #to collect this sort of information on. I could do youtube videos I guess also but that seems kind of strange like...#giving a rating to every single video I watch in a ranked list lol.. Especially since I would say a good 85% of the time #they are exclusively background noise whilst I'm working on something or cleaning the house or etc. and not things I pay serious attention #to. There are only a few specific topics/types/creators of videos I watch where I'm ACTUALLY sitting in front of a screen paying #direct attention to the content (usually when it's educational or political things). Everything else is too mindless to even rank.#ANYWAY... ever analyzing my little hermit Weird Relationship To Media (in the sense of seemingly not processing or getting the same #things out of it as many other seem to). I think that can contribute sometimes to the whole difficulty socializing and stuff #since our culture is very centered around media consumption generally speaking. People want to talk about The New Movie that came #out or The Big TV Show Of The Year. and for me it's like.. highly likely I just plain have NOT seen it. Or if i have. statistically #I most likely was entirely ambivalent if not slightly negative towards it lol. Which just kind of takes the steam out of a 'fun' 'casual'#conversation and you seem like a bit of a bummer if most of your only feedback is either 'idk what that is' or 'oh yea... i did #see that one.... i didnt like it all that much though... I think it'd be better with elves in it.. and 7 hours longer..'' lol..#Which I am not disliking things in a 'grr i hate it bc its popular'/just to be contrarian way. I actually dislike that mindset/find it #silly (by striving so hard to be counterculture you are thus still defining yourself by the whims of external culture - just in the #opposite direction. but are still just as preoccupied with the mainstream (going against it) as everyone else. etc. lol..)) In my #case I think it IS just having niche hyperspecific tastes.. for example- it peeves me when cell phones are in media bc I dont want to be #reminded at ALL of the real world. so.. cross off anything set in modern times. so on & etc. Judging all things by these weird criteria lol

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jazz-kitty · 11 months ago

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Could I get a bit of Keta maybe.. I don’t super understand rejuv and I haven’t seen more of him yet but I really liked him in sheridan

asking ME. JAZZ. to draw keta. thank u anony...... u came to the right guy.....

#pokemon rejuvenation #kenneth royer #jazzart #dont worry i havent seen more of him yet either im so bad at playing video games ToT #true as hell though. he WAS fire in sheridan. boy and his two hours of screentime YAAAA!!!!

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thegreatyin · 29 days ago

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Hey so you know Sunless Skies. Are you aware of the secret fourth Ambition? If so, there's something about it which haunts my dreams and has for years, and I need to spread the brainrot. If not, disregard this message, I don't want to give unsolicited spoilers. Sorry if the nature of the ask is in and of itself a spoiler.

i am indeed aware of it!!! i'm planning on pursuing it once i finish my current ambition in my current (and first) playthrough (the truth. i'm doing the truth as my very first ambition. because i apparently love to suffer and simply cannot do things by halves.)

#im currently playing sskies at an excruciatingly slow pace #bc like most video games i have it sitting on the steam library shelf until im in the mood to play it for 5 straight uninterrupted hours #and i dont touch it for a second sooner or longer #(blame the adhd on that one)#but i dont mind spoilers as long as they're vague or just completely batshit insane enough #especially in a setting like FL. which feels tailor made for that sort of thing #ask #sunless skies #i should talk about my sskies playthrough more often tbh..#i feel like i mention it literally every time this game comes up (which admittedly isnt that often)#but it is technically a non-canonical spinoff of scoundrel lore #i really really really enjoy what ive played so far. a good majority of my playtime (like. 20 or 30 hours already?)#has just been running around doing inventory management fetch quests #it just brings joy to my little autistic heart i guess

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churmandurr · 2 months ago

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The most toxic people you know are also the most powerful people you know....

Finished my 2nd play thru, finally did a full astarion romance. we went full durge EXCEPT for becoming bhaals chosen, ascended astarion... nastiest stinkiest worst dom sub leash out in public gross ass couple

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gray-soul · 2 months ago

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Screenshot taken before a disaster:

Today I got back into trying to beat Path of Pain. And I did.

Well, ignoring the little detail of dying to these two (fucks).

I'll.. I'll try again tomorrow.

#gray soul #hollow knight #ive been recording and I spend an hour trying to get through the last room #only to ofc forget about these two #and die #and thats why kids we dont play too much video games while exhausted #hk #path of pain #path of pain is a bitch

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autumnoakes · 5 months ago

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i don't think difficulty and challenge should be a litmus test for whether or not a game is "good"

first of all, how good a game is entirely depends on the person. like a game that one person hates might be a game that someone else loves

second of all, remember the animal crossing craze when acnh came out? i don't think that's an especially challenging game, but it's still beloved. games that aren't challenging can be beloved

third of all, maybe those of us who suck at games maybe want a game that's easy for once? 🤷🏼

#anyways saw a bad take dont want to mention what this is about specifically #i get judged whenever i tell people how long it takes me to beat games aodjeifjdkfjdjd #i just beat pikmin 1 last year and i grew up on those games (still havent beaten pikmin 2. or 3.)#i spent 2 HOURS on the totk ganondorf fight. i wish i was joking he kept beating my ass 😭😭😭#three YEARS to even make it to hades (and like 3 days to beat chronos. dont. dont ask.)#(i'm sooo inconsistent)#four years to beat oot too #unless i go deep into hyperfixation it can take anywhere between 6 months to 5 years to beat a video game #some games i just never finished sidjskdj. super paper mario i am always thinking about you #wind waker also stays in the 'never finished' category #(played it on emulator and i dont want to emulate on my current pc)#(it was given to me and i dont want to be like 'oh yeah btw i'm illegally playing wind waker on it lmao')#twilight princess as well because i just really hate chase sequences and never got past palace of twilight #so that also stays unfinished and has for the past 3 years #minish cap........ f in the chat for the shortest zelda game i have never finished

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izzy-b-hands · 2 months ago

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one minor breakdown abt election fears, and then onto chores and playing some gta. you know. as you do

#text post #I've been restraining the fear for weeks but i just lost it out of the blue this morning #im terrified and we've done what we can do ourselves and the rest we just have to wait and see #how my life and the lives of those i care abt the communities i want safe depend upon this #these tags aren't even making that much sense and i feel silly and like im begging for attention with this post #but i promise im not trying to do that i just. need to vent this out into the void #while i hope and plead and beg that we won't have to try and flee in the weeks after the election; if we could manage it at all #i finally have a life that i want to live enthusiastically and selfish as it is i don't want to lose it. I dont want to leave #but there's nothing i can do abt any of this beyond voting (done already!) and hoping and trying to proceed as normal thru life #so. im going to try and make transfemme ed in gta bc that seems like it might be fun. I usual rotate between making my character #look like my fave characters from various games and shows #haven't tried one for ed yet so maybe I'll give it a go #I don't know. i have to do something other than wallow any further this morning bc that's even more useless #than playing a video game for a few hours #sorry for the sad on main just. yeah

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verflares · 3 months ago

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getting my average pre-nintendo game release conflict of wanting to play the new fun game vs if i have to spend like £40-50 on something i can beat in only 20 hours or less i might be at risk of flying into a blind rage and attacking the people around me like a rabid chimp.

#when i say i hate nintendo i dont think people get it. i HATE nintendo. i HATE them. the am speech from i have no mouth? thats me.#anyway ughhh i really really liked linkswakening and i WILL do all the side content i can in any zelda game natch #but still. >30 hours is patheticcccc. sigh. at least for my price to time estimates for video games these days #cant say i didnt expect it though LOL. im glad people who are playing it Very Legally say its good and theyre enjoying it #sighhhhh. well. we'll see. ill be away this weekend anyways so idk if i'll even be able to play it before sunday LOL #hope everyone is well. i have been decompressing by playing ffxv. wheeeeee #personal.txt

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princeofcyberpunk · 9 months ago

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finally geting into zero escape here are my thoughts so far:

good :)

tutorial dragged on for way too long but thats just a spike chunsoft thing in my experience (looking at you RAINCODE with your SIX HOUR PROLOGUE/TUTORIAL /j)

the music is. really unnerving and i hope that changes

silver guy is pretty

i already know im going to like clover cuz ive seen her already from other people

junpei is like really stupid /neutral statement

ive only gotten to the part where they learn the rules of the game so stay tuned for princeumin's epic zero escape reaction

#princeposting #zero escape #zero escape 999 #9 persons 9 hours 9 doors #im watching a no commentary playthrough btw #i did this with twewy and neo twewy as well bcus i dont want to buy a game im unfamiliar with and then end up not likign it #plus i dont have the time to play a longass game #and overall im bad at video games so it would take even longer + i'd inevitably get stuck somewhere and give up /j #also i think the 30 minute tutorial thing was mostly a me issue cuz i wasn't the one playing so it felt even longer #and if you've never played mdarc yes the prologue/tutorial really is like at least 5 if not 6 hours long #i love that game but why #my brain is small i need a short simple tutorial :(

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crest-of-gautier · 4 months ago

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trying to pursue a clear of triumvirate on hlm is such a humbling experience

#lizz.txt #i have a lot i could say about this but i need to SLEEP so i can make more attempts tomorrow <3 #but WOW! i streamed some of my attempts/me trying to build my meter.... it was 14 shifts #i won 13/14 of them but also trying to clear triumvirate on this difficulty is such a wildly different story from trying to clear HLM #the skillset required for it is a cut above the rest especially if you're trying to do this in freelance w/o a dedicated group/partner #but i think it was a worthwhile training arc before i do more attempts tomorrow...#i think i talk about the discrepancy btween clearing the regular waves vs xtrawave a lot during my stream i did #so i wont repeat myself in the tags but GOD it's definitely really fun to do sr. learning and trying to get better at it-#is something that really gels with my brain in a way that other video games dont... IDK WHY!!! its just so fun to me <3 #...i played 12.5 hours of big run.... ah.. beh!!!!#'i have a lot i could say about this but i need to sleep' and boom tag text wall whoops

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mukuberry · 10 months ago

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i wish i could play viddya games more but i have the world's worst eyestrain problems for literally no reason

#chernikocore #cant play minecraft for more than half n hour.... cant play a single game of pjsk without being in unbearable pain.....#had to delete my beloved overwatch because i could not sit through a single match without my eyes watering so much i was basically crying #and why!!!! i can watch videos of ppl playing perfectly fine but the second i wanna play???? nope! eye death #eye drops dont do anything... sad sad world #can someone diagnose me pls

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today-i-am-thinking-about · 1 month ago

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ant farms

#i lied about what game im playing next its actually rimworld oops. the youtube videos got to me #its been sitting in my library for 2.5 years with an hour of playtime bc i got overwhelmed. but its fine i installed a bunch of qol mods #i will simply have to learn to be less micromanagey. anyway they werent kidding about those ancient dangers huh #i could never have a real ant farm bc i dont want bugs in my house. sorry ants (sants)#plus the ant-related trauma from the time ants got into my curtain rod /hj (about the trauma. not the ants)

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br1ghtestlight · 1 month ago

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why are my upstairs neighbors always somehow awake and moving around furniture at 3am

#i dont even mind it tbh bcuz i dont wake up easily and im usually awake at 3am but those jokes about upstairs neighbors #were NOT lying idk why houses are built so that like every single sound is amplified x1000 #and then my other neighbors (there are like five total units in the house. i think. maybe four) are always doing laundry or vacuuming #at like 6am on the dot and their laundry area is connected to our kitchen area so its like GIRL WHY DO YOU ALWAYS DO LAUNDRY AT THESE HOURS #its literally always at 9pm or 5am or midnight #i dont even care Btw once again noise does not bother me. i spent most of my teenage years listening to my younger brother jump around #and scream at his friends on discord while playing video games at like 4am and grew up with three siblings #i dont care about background noise its just fascinating hearing their lives going on in the background everyday #txt

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shdwtouch · 4 months ago

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okay sorry folks I've had a massive mood drop due to real life bs / financial stuff. I'm gonna try to chill, collect myself, then I'll be back to try and send + answer some asks ♡

#《 ° puffin.exe 》 im a puffin ! i dont do much #° mobile post !#° to be deleted !#° personal !#2nd time in 24 hours ive felt like crying and having a complete breakdown so im. not doing too great.#gonna watch some youtube and play some video games and hopefully feel better / relaxed after

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